Dora Maar in an Armchair

I am a person that share and have a great passion for music but not so much for paintings. When it come to paintings I simply look at them and the name of the artist but lately I’ve been learning more about them and the different types and the one I seem to like the most is cubism. In the picture above is a painting by Pablo Picasso dated from 1939 named “Dora Maar in an Armchair” which I took at the Met Museum of Art (this was my first time visiting the museum).  Pablo Picasso is one of the creator of cubism style of painting and in this particular one he did a portrait of Surrealist photographer Dora Maar, his then lover which he often referred to as his ‘private muse.’ They witnessed the outbreak of World War II together at Royan, a small town on France’s southern Atlantic coast. Cubist paintings aren’t meant to be realistic or life-like and this is what I like most about them. In this painting he distorted Dora Maar’s face and body and the garish wallpaper is said to be  the same paper that decorated  their  room at the Hotel du Tigre. He did many painting of Dora Maar most depicting her sad because she is sterile but in this one she is happy and smiling.